The last of the Olds 2-door hardtops? 1976 Oldsmobile Delta 88 2DR - cars & trucks - by owner - vehicle... (craigslist.org)
Yes, the last year of the Olds (I think all GM) full-size hardtops, two or four-door. This is good-looking car, but I do see one curious issue. The body side molding on the driver's side is complete. It runs from just behind the front wheel well all the way to the taillight. On the passenger side, though, the part from the door rearward is missing. What's the issue here? Was the car repainted and that piece of trim was too far gone to be reused? I see that the pinstripe running the full length of the car at the belt line is intact on both sides.
Glue probably failed and it fell off over the years as they were stick-ons from the factory in this era. Pinstripes and door moldings like that are some of the very accurate guarantees of original paint simply because they were near impossible to duplicate or replace if the car ever had body work. Even the dealer warranty repairs wouldn't regularly replace them because they were so hard to do and the replacement moldings were riveted on.
